1st Edition
Representing the Nation: A Reader Histories, Heritage, Museums
488 Pages
by
Routledge
488 Pages
by
Routledge
Gathering key writings from leading thinkers in cultural studies, cultural history, and museum studies, Representing the Nation: A reader explores the role cultural institutions play in creating and shaping our sense of ourselves as a nation.
With an international perspective focusing on the USA, France, Australia, the UK and India, leading figures and authors, including Tony Bennet,... Read more
List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; PART ONE Culture, community and nation; PART TWO Representing the past as heritage and its consumption; PART THREE Museums as classificatory systems and their prehistories; PART FOUR Museums and cultural management; Index
Biography
David Boswell is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the Open University. Jessica Evans is Lecturer in Cultural and Media Studies at the Open University.
